Iraq policy has led to Blair's downfall, says top British UN official

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Tony Blair's policy in Iraq is what, ultimately, fatally undermined his position as Prime Minister and forced him to step down, said the deputy secretary general of the United Nations, Mark Malloch Brown, yesterday.

He said the Prime Minister's failure to call for an immediate ceasefire during the Israeli bombing of Lebanon was the final nail in his coffin, triggering the final rebellion by many previous loyalists, and he suggested that Mr Blair had learnt no lessons from his earlier unquestioning support of the United States.

Asked whether Mr Blair might be a candidate for the job of UN secretary general when Kofi Annan steps down at the end of the year, Mr Malloch Brown said: "There's absolutely no break in the view that this time it is Asia's turn to get the top UN job." South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon is the front-runner to succeed Mr Annan.

And privately, UN insiders suggest that Mr Blair has no chance. It was always unlikely that the job would go to a figure from one of the permanent members of the Security Council. "They are felt already to be over-privileged," one UN source said. "But Iraq has finished him. Mr Blair seems not to appreciate just how disliked and distrusted he is in other nations."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1771864.ece

[MadMaddie]

1. And it will lead to the * Cabal downfall....

[TheBaldyMan]

2. IMHO it is his total disregard for what his grassroots thinks

he continues to rule by presidential fiat and it has always PO'd people. His megalomania has proven to be his undoing, Iraq is only one of the outcomes of his pig-headed refusal to listen to any opinion but those originating from his private court.

[Vidar]

3. Ther fucker's not dead yet.

[CJCRANE]

4. Blair's still there

and lining up his bully-boy John Reid to take over.